How many external floppy drives can be attached to a Macintosh Plus?

Assuming I don't have a hard drive attached to a Mac Plus, is it possible to attach two external floppy drives? That way, I can use the internal floppy drive for the startup disk, the 1st external drive for the application disk, and the 2nd external drive for a data disk so save files.
Otherwise, how can I save to a data disk without having to eject one of the other floppies?

So the way you used to do it was -- you write-enabled the System disk. When you went to save, you saved your data file onto the system disk. Then if you wanted to copy it to another disk, eject the Applications disk and insert another all-data disk where you accumulated all your data files.
The operating system was very forgiving, and would let you eject the system disk if you had to. So you really could operate these Macs with one drive, as long as you didn't mind swapping disks all the time.
Even the HD20 was a big step up from that. But a Mac Plus has a SCSI port, and you can add an external SCSI drive of enormous proportions. (An 80 MegaByte drive was about a $1000 item.) I think you can install up to about 1 GB.

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